Idiots you have worked with

[Pete999]

I was Lead on on one particular job, overseas, and I had to arange a handover to a new chap we had so say trained in the particular needs of our working practices,
Any way Matey turned up all bright beyed and bushy tailed ready to set the World on fire.
Showing him around the Switch room, that switch there Mate, don't switch it off unless you have arranged with the client for a down time OK? yeah Fine Pete, no worries, the day I was flying home got a call , better get your arse round here PDQ Mate.
All Hell had broken loose, Matey had switched off without permission, lots of Damage to electronic Kit which needed a phased shut down, some Div knocking a 100Amp 3phase off was not an ideal thing to do, took me 3 days to sort the problem out change my flight and eat humble pie with Her in Doors, as well as arrangeing Matey's demise from his employment, Pillock.

 

[elsparko]

ive driven around all day with my snips on the roof of my van and only found them at the end of the day, had a tin of half full irn bru stay on the roof aswell from the wholesaler to a job

i had to make a rule after the rcd one though, NO MATERIALS ON THE ROOF lol

 

[Pete999]

Fair time back now but asked one of the lads to check a box of BS88 fuses to find a 63A which had not blown and when he hands me one it is duff. He insisted it was good so I got him to show me how he checked it, he placed it on some steel trunking and said see it is good.

Classic is that.

 

[Pete999]

Fair time back now but asked one of the lads to check a box of BS88 fuses to find a 63A which had not blown and when he hands me one it is duff. He insisted it was good so I got him to show me how he checked it, he placed it on some steel trunking and said see it is good.

Classic is that.

 

[sham]

I was on call out during Xmas, I was sent to a house that had no hot water. It was a plumbers job really as it was boiler fed. The young lady with two children was stressed as the appointment for the heating engineer was a week in January. So I tried my luck and bypassed the thermostat and to which the boiler kicked in the heat water. So I gave her some hot water and put everything back to place as it is dangerous to leave thermostat bypassed. I explained that I could not do anything permanent and she just had to wait. After new year I was sent to the offices and got fired because the lady, or her partner, bypassed it again after I had left and told the heating engineer I did it.

 

[Dave OCD]

I worked with a bloke years ago who thought that placing a level on a flourescent fitting on the ceiling would help getting it parallel with the room, and also that if you swapped the two wires round in a one way switch it would then be upside down in operation. And he was the boss !!

 

[sham]

I worked with a bloke years ago who thought that placing a level on a flourescent fitting on the ceiling would help getting it parallel with the room, and also that if you swapped the two wires round in a one way switch it would then be upside down in operation. And he was the boss !!

I was like that, until now, lol

 

[Midwest]

I was on call out during Xmas, I was sent to a house that had no hot water. It was a plumbers job really as it was boiler fed. The young lady with two children was stressed as the appointment for the heating engineer was a week in January. So I tried my luck and bypassed the thermostat and to which the boiler kicked in the heat water. So I gave her some hot water and put everything back to place as it is dangerous to leave thermostat bypassed. I explained that I could not do anything permanent and she just had to wait. After new year I was sent to the offices and got fired because the lady, or her partner, bypassed it again after I had left and told the heating engineer I did it.

Theres no 'like' for that, guess you won't be so obliging again.

 

[johnduffell]

After new year I was sent to the offices and got fired because the lady, or her partner, bypassed it again after I had left and told the heating engineer I did it.

That's ridiculous, no chance to explain yourself? I hope you're well shot of that employer

 

[pirate]

I worked with a guy who was a minor TV personality, a football commentator in the evenings. He left all the real work in the office to me, and swanned off to the tv studios a couple of times a week...I would work my butt off tidying up his sh*t, then get home at 10pm to see him pontificating on the telly...(and getting paid a pretty penny too)
I moved jobs..and he was "moved" too, eventually. Moral: Do your own work, for yourself, whenever possible.

 

[Rpa07]

Wasn’t Motty was it @pirate? You’d have said if it was, wouldn’t you!

 

[KEV 1 N]

Remember on a job about 10years ago, we had an agency sparkys mate fitting containment.
The task involved fitting galv trunking to plasterboard wall.
I noticed he was drilling a load of random holes in the back of the trunking, then offered it up to the wall. At this point I walked over and asked how he knew where the studs where in the wall, he said he never bothered finding the studs, one of the holes he drilled was bound to hit a stud!

 

[sham]

Remember on a job about 10years ago, we had an agency sparkys mate fitting containment.
The task involved fitting galv trunking to plasterboard wall.
I noticed he was drilling a load of random holes in the back of the trunking, then offered it up to the wall. At this point I walked over and asked how he knew where the studs where in the wall, he said he never bothered finding the studs, one of the holes he drilled was bound to hit a stud!

Lol, logic

 

[johnduffell]

one of the holes he drilled was bound to hit a stud!

Your guy had a great understanding of stochastic probability, maybe he is a mathematician on day release

 

[pirate]

Nope, Rpa07...not Motty...
and yes, I would've said if it was
I magine a w anchor, only much worse!

 

[Toneyz]

Drilled through a garage wall once for the SWA feed straight into an oil tank lots of gaffas tape around it to stop the spillage.